Kenya: Why Ugandans Are Eating Up the Kenyatta-Ruto 'Fallout' Story

19 February 2020
opinion

If Kenya were a human being, its identical twin -- particularly in how its government is run -- would be Uganda. Most times, the shape of corruption in the two countries is impossible to tell apart. As a people, Kenyans and Ugandans, as citizens of the two most open East African nations, generally get each other on most counts.

A large section of Uganda's chattering classes is nearly as obsessed as the Kenyans with the Kenyan succession battle (real and imagined) between the President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto camps, Opposition leader Raila Odinga's place at the political high table after the March 2018 'handshake' with Uhuru, and the mysterious creature called Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) that's getting many people's knickers in a twist.

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